frostwork
Example Sentences
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Annie went to the window, and at first could see nothing but some beautiful frostwork on it.
From McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
All is contained in that one sob, in which the whole frostwork of these weary months breaks up and rolls away, swept before the strong flood.
From The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms by Alexander Maclaren
Such a Brother, with such a Life opening around him, like a blooming garden where he was to labor and gather, all vanished suddenly like frostwork, and hidden from your eye!
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Thomas Carlyle
Yellow with age it was, and delicate as a spider's web, with frostwork of yellowed broidery strewn quaintly on its ancient form, and a touch of real lace.
From The Man of the Desert by Grace Livingston Hill
A red rash, with the pattern of frostwork on a Minnesota windowpane in January, was across his lean, handsome face.
From The Planet Strappers by Raymond Z. Gallun
